Russ writes: >My employees TT for April 30 1961 still shows one of the three Northern >branch trains each way still stopping at Susquehanna Transfer. For the >others, the first stop was Ridgefield. > In the April 27, 1958 TT, There were three Northern round trips; of >which two inbound and one outbound stopped at Susq. Tranfer. There were The Northern's use of the Transfer depended upon the NYS&W schedule -- which was steadily siminishing at the time. >Surprisingly one NYSW train (number 21 leaving JC at 9:12 am did not stop at >the Transfer. Maybe a mail train. Equipment move from Train 960 and 962 -- which were eastbound-only Saturday runs with no westbound counterparts. All US Mail (not to mention Railway Express) disappeared from Jersey City when the Erie first moved over to Hoboken -- including on the NYS&W. BTW -- The NYS&W also tried to use RDCs on the two Saturday Butler trains -- they did it for two weeks -- until the Erie decreed that they would refuse any train whatoever using RDCs (even though the NYS&W trains were the only user of the Jersey City Terminal on Saturdays). The Northern moved to Hoboken the Monday after the end of Jersey City ferry service. The NYS&W was then alone at Jersey City for more than a year. > > The Northern trains also stopped at Susquehanna Transfer. Was it possible > to get off a Susquehanna train at ST and then take a Northern train into > Hoboken? Not bloody likely. I know I tried <g>. The Northern trains rarely -- if ever -- stopped during the last few years. This was also not a stop for tariff purposes. Crews were not permitted to allow NYS&W passengers (or anyone else) to board at the Transfer, nor to let folk off in the evening. Some fans were known to sneak on -- but the fare would be cut from Ridgefield or Fairview. Of course, there was that time the Northern smacked into a truck at Babbitt -- and the Northern riders piled off and squeezed into the NYS&W train to the Transfer, with the Erie conductor runing after then "That train doesn;t go to Jersey City!!! It only goes to the Transfer!!!" but people wanted to get to work, not spend the morning waiting for a crane to dislodge the wreckage of the truck and the RS3 -- wedged together under the West Shore bridge. One can easily fix the exact date -- that was the same day the PRR quit Exchange Place. Cheers, Jim Guthrie The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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